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Gargoyle Router Management Utility
http://www.gargoyle-router.com
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Enable kmod-usb-net-ipheth #940

Closed jan-kiszka closed 2 years ago

jan-kiszka commented 2 years ago

Does anything speak against enabling this driver in the configs? To my understanding, it should allow using iPhones as uplinks in wired (USB) mode, e.g and case you normal uplink is broken. I'm testing this right now (while my normal uplink is broken), and I could provide a PR then.

lantis1008 commented 2 years ago

I'd be happy to look at a PR for this functionality. I'd be interested to see whether it is distinguishable as a tethered phone or it just identifies as another "usb modem".

jan-kiszka commented 2 years ago

Besides a kernel patch that I already integrated, this also requires usbmuxd and libimobiledevice from the openwrt packages repo. And here my knowledge ends.

jan-kiszka commented 2 years ago

See also https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/wan/smartphone.usb.tethering.

lantis1008 commented 2 years ago

You can install those packages and try to make it work, and if it works suggest a PR.

All of that said, the size of the packages + kmod are almost 1.5MB, which makes it very difficult to include in the default images. It could be wrapped into a plug-in maybe, or the packages would need to be stripped down.

If you're not able to make a PR for this, can I please suggest this issue is closed? I'm happy to assist to some degree (packing it into a plug-in for example) but I'm not (at this point in time) willing to implement the whole thing myself.

jan-kiszka commented 2 years ago

I've copied over all recipes from the package repo and I'm build that now (single core due to broken parallel build...). Let's see if I get it working at all, then decide.

I agree that the size will be a problem (libxml2...). That looked differently when I only starred at the kmod (10K).

jan-kiszka commented 2 years ago

Ok, making progress: All packages are in, the phone suddenly asks if it should trust the router, and then I get a new interface: eth2 on my wrt32x.

That interface is not directly configurable as WAN. I've hacked /etc/gargoyle_default_ifs on the device to make that work, but we will need a real UI extension for that.

lantis1008 commented 2 years ago

Please close